This "gap in understanding" doesn't seem like a situation that would last for very long, because AI companies have every incentive to market the shit out of the capabilities of their models to the public. And yet they don't - why?
Also, I think programmers/mathematicians (the ones that should be calling out bullshit) are enthralled because many of our jobs was so suitable to automation (this was the secret of the 10x engineers, they didn't shit out too much unnecessary crap.. now that unnecessary crap is spit out at rocket-speed so everyone is working at that speed or even faster).
That said, information-gruntwork that a nominally competent person could do is up for grabs and many previously so called "bullshit" jobs were tied to that.
These companies have all spent billions on marketing. I get constant ads from Google on YouTube suggesting I should "upgrade" to Gemini Pro.